Improvement in knit fringes or borders



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I TIN LANDENBERGER AND COMPANY, OFSAMEPLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN KNIT FRINGES OR BRDIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,810, dated June 10,1873; application filed April 4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES PHI1 Ps,ot' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented an Improved Knitted Fringe or Border, of which the following isa specification:

The object of my invention is to produce I upon a knitting-machineborders or fringes of tudinal threads a and b which form the body andsurface of the fringe, by chains of needlethread d, extendinglongitudinally` over the back ofthe fabric.

Heretofore borders or fringes of this character have been produced byhand, as follows: The longitudinal threads b b are secured at theiropposite ends to pegs, which retain them in their proper relativepositions, and the thread a is then passed around a double row of pegs,first to one side and then to the other, so as to give it a zigzagcourse across the threads a, as shown, after which the two series ofthreads are tied together by hand at the points where they cross eachother.

Borders or fringes produced by this tedious process are necessarilyexpensive and more or less imperfect, obj ections which I have overcomeby producing the same upon a knittingmachine in a manner which will bereadily understood from the following detailed description, referencebeing had to the rear view Fig. 3, ofthe accompanying drawing.

A series-of borders or fringes A A1 A2, &c., are knitted simultaneously,and side by side, the bunches of threads a and b being fed by ordinaryguides, so operated as to lay the threads b in straight lines, and inthe direction of the length of the fringe, while the threads a are laidacross the threads bin a zigzag courseas shown, and simultaneously withthis laying of the body or surface threads, two liner threads d d, alsofed by guides, are

interlocked, each bya single needle, with the said body-threads at thepoints were they cross each other, these needle-threads forming a simplechain at the back of the fabricwhere they are entirely concealed by thelongitudinal body-threads b. Other needle-threads e,

are also, as the knitting progresses, interthe threads a and bseparately to the needlethreads, instead of at the points, where theycross each other;` and in Figs. 5 and l, which 4represent front and rearviews of the same fringe, the threads a are laid transversely andclosely together, while the threads b are zigzagged, the whole beingbound together by longitudinal chains of needle-threads d, at the backof the fabric, as before described. A peculiar edging may be producedupon this latter fringe by cutting the body-threads a in the mannershown at w.

I claim as my invention- I A knitted fringe or border consisting of bodyor surface threads a and b, crossing each other, one or both in zigzaglines, and bound together by chains of needle-thread d, extendinglongitudinally over the back of the fabric,

substantially as herein described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES PHIPPS.

Witnesses: y

ROBERT MeGoNNELL, H. DORNEMANN.

